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Writing the first poem 3/7/2013 6:20:38 AM
Writing your first poem is the toughest thing. If you're anything like me, you thought a Poet was some sort of weird individual in a run down or seedy smoky cafe or at the very worst some hermit you wanted to stay far away from. A Poet struck me as one who didn't go along with the
Status Quo---problem is my earliest impression of Poets was well to be frankly honest--NUTS! Yet I came to see Poetry as something where someone spoke the truth as they saw it and that truth at times had a sort of healing elixir to their words. Poetry in itself exposes itself. There is no polite cover up of feelings-no Mask. A Poet can at times be harsh or other times loving. One rule doesn't fit all. The one who loves to rhyme may meet someone who love to free verse their thoughts or even put spaces between their words. From my first poem a floodgate opened up for me and poems began to form, many without warning. When the world closes its doors on you, often a poem will embrace you, to give a voice to your pain or rejoice in the Creator who has never left you alone without His Love. Some will say what inspires them is a Muse. For me I believe it is a gift from God-a Vivid imagination.
What also can be a gift in Poetry is giving yourself the freedom to write out your pain. To allow yourself to go dark when a spouses grieves you, when you are in a private pain, a bad day, the loss of a parent,job, pet etc. Poetry allows you to heal yourself. Writing about your private pain may indeed scare you, sort of like driving down a road at night when no lights or bad brakes. Your mind screams out at you re-your sanity-to give yourself a voice and write it out--well many would prefer you keep your thoughts to yourself--at least that is what some will tell you. if you journal tho from deep within your soul it can be therapeutic. And we even discover that writing in the midst of such darkness we may find a way out our lonesome valley.
Allow yourself the Freedom to cry---to express how you really feel That in a nutshell can be truly liberating. Finally write for yourself--if you write poetry only for the praise of others you have missed the point--you write for yourself--this is you writing--don't write to please others or write a certain way--write the way you feel--allow the gift the talent within you to emerge. The world has yet to see what gifts you have to cultivate and not leave buried in the sand and that as I say often is not news BUT that too is |Reality.
